[CentOS] How Do I ...

On 4/15/2010 10:32 AM, Fernando Gleiser wrote:

>> in the olden days it was so easy, you had PCI cards and they were
>> named by the slot number, starting with eth0 in PCI slot 1 and so on.
>> Then
>> came the inbuilt nics
>> Then came the PCIx built nics
>> Then came the PCI-e
>> built nics
>
>> OUCH! ;-)
>
>
> Then came blade servers with built-in nics you can't  unplug because they're plugged to the blade center enclosure's internal switches :)

Worse, and probably more to the point of non-deterministic hardware 
detection, you can plug in a USB->ethernet adapter anytime or several in 
any order.

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   Les Mikesell
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